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From: hb@pixar.UUCP (H. B. Siegel)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,sci.misc
Subject: Do You Have an Interesting Formula?
Message-ID: <1536@pixar.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 01:21:07 GMT
Organization: Pixar -- Marin County, California
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Keywords: formula

I'm collecting interesting and/or amusing "formulas" for eventual
posting.

Some examples to give you idea of the flavor:
  An expression for the probability of  
life on other planets as a function of lifetime of technological 
civilization times the lifetime of a star, etc.

  The estimated time in months until you find your next girlfriend/boyfriend
as a function of the number of dates you go on, how long your relationships
usually last, etc.

  The estimated time of completion of a Ph.D.

  The actual value of anything is equal to the log of
it's cost.  E.g. a stereo that costs twice as much as another stereo
is no where near twice as good.  

They should be interesting and amusing enough to make you want to sit down
and figure them out for yourself and friends - I'm not interested
in a formula straight out of a math or physics book.   There's
no pretense for mathematical accuracy, either.  Formulas based on
intuition or commonsense are just as fun.

	Please mail responses directly to ucbvax\!pixar\!hb

	H.B. Siegel

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